Television Quotes

One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

I have to say that as an actor, I really look for the role. I'm not really looking to see if it's for television or film, because there are highly talented people in both mediums.

You can't do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you're always on pins and needles about whether you'll be picked up, you'll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way.

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

You're lucky enough in television to always be at it, to always be doing it. It's like you're constantly that person, always, all the time. It gets to be like clockwork.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.